The Fipa owes her this special homage, too. For the high standards of her choices in television and film roles, and most of all because she is outstanding in everything she does. Quite simply, a truly great actress.
Congratulations, Ms. Gedeck, and have a good journey!

Pierre Henri Deleau

Born in Munich. A popular film and TV actress in Germany, she came to acting after a detour in literature and history studies, before enrolling at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. After a brief stage career, which led her to the Theater am Turm (Frankfurt), the Deutsches Schauspielhaus (Hamburg) and the leading theatres of Berlin and Basle, she made her debut in front of the cameras in Dominik Graf’s made-for-TV Die Beute. She followed up with such TV series as Eurocops and Adelheid und ihre Mörder. In 1985, her performance as a hunchbacked outcast in Jo Baier’s Hölleisengretl won her the Bavarian Television Prize.

Martina Gedeck has acted in more than 50 fiction features in a variety of genres: in 1994, audiences saw her in Sönke Wortmann’s Der bewegte Mann. A year later, she stood out in Rainer Kaufmann’s Stadtgespräch in which she played a deceived wife. In Helmut Dietl’s social satire Rossini, she was Serafina, a secretive and headstrong Italian waitress who idolizes a writer of offbeat scripts. This role, and that of Lio in Das Leben ist eine Baustelle, earned her the German Film Award in 1997; a year later, she won the Adolf-Grimme Prize for her performance in Neffe and Bella Block. In 2002, she again won the Adolf-Grimme Prize for Hermine Huntgeburth’s Roméo.

In 2003, she was honored by German film critics for her role in Sandra Nettelbeck’s Bella Martha (Mostly Martha). She also acted in Markus Imboden’s Ins Leben zurück and Richard Blank’s Casanova. In 2006, she was seen in Stefan Krohmer’s Summer 04, Francis Girod’s Un ami parfait, Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd and most of all, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck The Lives of Others, a landmark film in the international renewal of German cinema. In 2007, she starred in Helma Sanders-Brahms’s Clara and Vanessa Jopp’s Meine schöne Bescherung. In 2008 she will play the role of Ulrike Meinhof in Uli Edel’s Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex.

FILMOGRAPHY

Drama and TV Series